“In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to ...” — Michael Korda Quote

“In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to set traps for humans, and largely indifferent to the unprivileged bulk of humankind, who in any case did not expect their fate in the afterworld to be any better than it had been on earth.”

“To succeed, we must first believe that we can.”